Bugs, news and stuff: Re: [pcgen] Confused about a bonus

I did this last night, actually, and it's confirmed. PCGen assumes that the rapier is the black blade. I didn't try to see what would happen if I mismatched the chosen weapon type with what I picked, but I can say that it ignored my shortbow and didn't try to give it the blade's bonuses.

So what I ended up doing is adding a custom rapier that costs 0 gp and has the name "Black Blade (Rapier +3)". It now works properly and has a label that isn't misleading.

As for the encumbrance issue I ran into, I just added a Handy Haversack, with a note that the character doesn't actually have a Handy Haversack. Crude but effective.

On Friday, July 22, 2016, TAYLOR NEIL saxum.caribetum@ntlworld.com [pcgen] <pcgen@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I have a similar task IOC. Paizo's rules are a tad unclear, but boil down to "you can't enchant your black blade" - which makes sense as you can't enchant it while it's with you, so too you can't before you get it. There's nothing in the Paizo texts to say you can't have special material..
The Magus's blade is mithral. That works fine - PF legal, and PCGen gets it right.
Don't use an enchanted blade in PCGen - your +3 Misc is the blade itself.
Try an experiment: clone you character file, remove the BB and replace it with a plain unenchanted one.
Experiment changing the level of the PC, you should see the BB improve with him. [NOTE: do make sure both character files are open in PCGen when you level up - that applies to all companions: Eidolon, Animal Companion, Familiar,...]
Try replacing the blade with +1, +2, +3...

On 21 July 2016 at 22:17 "Justin Miller jemiller@gmail.com [pcgen]" <pcgen@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I'm finally getting another chance to look at this, and I have installed 6.06.01 RC4. Thankfully the one source that my previous version didn't have, this one does. WOOHOO!

At any rate, that bit of celebration out of the way, this is a 12th level bladebound magus using a rapier, which is correctly listed as a "companion" in PCGen. This should be a +3 weapon at level 12, so I added a zero cost Rapier +3 because PCGen did not automatically add the companion as a weapon to my equipment. Here's how the text lists it:

Rapier +3
Base Item: Rapier
Type: Weapon. Resizable. Melee. OneHanded. Martial. Finesseable. Standard. Piercing. Sword. Bladelight. MeleePiercing. InspiredOK. Weapon Group Melee OneHanded Piercing. Weapon Group Blades Light. Custom
Wield: OneHanded
Proficient: Y
Cost: 0 gp
Wt: 2 lbs. Size: M
Damage: 1d6 Crit Range: 3 Crit Mult: x2 Range: 0 ft.
Properties: WEAPON|DAMAGEMULT:2|-0.5, ITEMCOST|TYPE.WEAPON|2000*HEADPLUSTOTAL*HEADPLUSTOTAL, ITEMCOST|TYPE.WEAPON|300|!PRETYPE:1,EQMODTYPE=MASTERWORKQUALITY, WEAPON|DAMAGE,TOHIT|3|TYPE=ENHANCEMENT
Source: Custom - Paizo Inc. - Ultimate Equipment, p.34

So, that looks right to me. Moving on...

I have weapon finesse, so I'm using DEX for to hit with this weapon.

The troubleshooting sheet says the following:

To Hit: +19 = +8[BAB] +2[STAT] +0[SIZE] +3[MAGIC] +3[MISC]

How does 8+2+3+3 = 19? I get now that the +3[MISC] is just a placeholder because I have Weapon Finesse, and my DEX bonus is +5, but where's the extra +3 coming from? Furthermore, my damage is listed at 1d6+8, which seems like it should be 1d6+5 (STR bonus +2, enhancement +3).
Troubleshooting sheet has problems with effects which affect the choice of Stat. The +2 is your Str - it should show Dex, but doesn't.
+3 is the Blade.
+3 Magic is user-error.
You can't see the difference 'cos you have too many +3s.

[TIP: if you want to experiment and see how PCGen is working, contrive an artificial PC with each possible bonus at a different level, so you can spot it in the addition! +1, +2, +4, +8 is a good series]
Lastly, one bit of weirdness that I'm seeing. My DM doesn't like to deal with encumbrance bookkeeping, so long as we don't go nuts and carry around stupid amounts of stuff. She's OK with hand-waving away a medium load, which is fine with me. To this end, I disabled both SYS_LDPACSK and SYS_WTPSK in the preferences. This appears to have worked for my skills but not my AC. Because I'm at a medium load, it's counting my DEX bonus as +3 for purposes of determining AC instead of +5.
IOC we put heavy stuff in a back-pack. We assess its effect on long distance travel, then set it to "not-carried" and agree
"at the first sign of trouble the party drops its baggage."
IRL at GenConUK some years back, they had a live demo where you could put on a packed Adventurer's Backpack. The weight itself was no problem, and you could jug in a straight line without problem - but your manoeuvrability was terrible. There was a maze laid out with 5' squares, and the pack made it almost impossible!
If I'm right about these, it's easy enough to cross out the numbers on my sheet and write in the good ones, but I want to make sure I'm not wrong first!

Thanks,
Justin

On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Andrew drew0500@yahoo.com [pcgen] <pcgen@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Hi,
Well, see, if the issue is fixed, then using an older version doesn't help. For your bladebound weapon, are you customizing the weapon?
Setting up homebrew files is rather simple. In the preferences, set the path to your homebrew directory using either Vendor or Homebrew. Once set, you shouldn't be too concerned about it. Happy to assist, since I have my own homebrew, a test folder for the new sources and the pcgen files.
Cheers,
Andrew

On 7/17/2016 8:35 AM, jemiller@gmail.com [pcgen] wrote:
I have a bladebound magus in Pathfinder, and I believe, but can't seem to prove, that PCGen is adding the +3 for my weapon twice. Other than the troubleshooting character sheet, is there a way to find out where numbers are coming from? Seeing a +3 attributed to "MISC" isn't shedding any light on the problem for me.

I'm using v6.06.00 RC2. I realize there are newer versions, but I'm using a source not included with the original files, and I haven't felt like installing the new version and setting that up again. This character is complicated and something always breaks when I change versions.